He also pleaded guilty to making, or downloading, 593 Category B images and 2,425 Category C images, between the same dates.

He finally pleaded guilty to acts outraging public decency by recording images of female buttocks between July 2015 and May last year.

April 2017

Pervert faces jail for filming up skirts of 700 females

A pervert from Modbury faces prison for filming up the skirts of hundreds of unsuspecting females

Obsessive Karl Palmer, aged 36, was caught with 700 images of ladies’ backsides he had secretly snapped with a mobile phone, a court heard.

He also had 3,000 indecent pictures of children on his computers – among so many images that police gave up looking.

They included more than 300 images of youngsters being sexually abused by adults, Plymouth Crown Court heard.

Judge Ian Lawrie bailed Palmer for a probation report to be prepared.

He added: “My initial thoughts are to send you to prison because I think you are a risk, not just downloading images of children but because you go around Plymouth for ten months taking indecent images of unsuspecting women.”

The court heard that police found a million images on his computer, though not all were indecent and some were duplicates.

Janice Eagles, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said that as far as the police knew none of his victims had reported that they had been filmed.

The court heard that the images were found on his computer.

She added: “Any woman would be horrified if they found they had been filmed in this way. It is very worrying and obsessive behaviour.”

Miss Eagles said it was not clear whether any of his victims had been identified.

Palmer, from Modbury, admitted making 317 still and moving images of children in Category A, depicting young people being sexually abused by adults, between August 2012 and May 2016.

He also pleaded guilty to making, or downloading, 593 Category B images and 2,425 Category C images, between the same dates.

Palmer admitted possession of 21 prohibited images – indecent cartoons – of children. He finally pleaded guilty to acts outraging public decency by recording images of female buttocks between July 2015 and May last year.

Palmer was released on bail until sentence on Friday. He must report to Charles Cross police station every day until then.